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Hello, Sunshine.
I'm Maria.
My name is Rory and we're the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast.
The podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills, along the way.
We've started this podcast to give you super grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELTS score.
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Rory, so I'm gonna make a noise now.
I'm gonna make some noise.
Make some noise.
And you have to guess what this week's episode is about.
Okay?
So I make the noise and you make a guess.
Dear listener, you can also make this guess.
What are we going to be talking about today?
Oh, it sounds like coins.
Is it coins?
No.
Take another guess.
Is it keys?
Yeah, keys.
Yeah, I have here my keys.
Actually, like two keys and another key on a keychain.
Yay.
Right, dear listener, keys are back.
Yeah, we've talked about keys before.
So you can listen to our...
First episode.
All right.
Just Google IELTS speaking for success keys.
And you have two episodes, this one and the one we recorded.
I don't remember when, but you have two episodes.
Keys.
IELTS people do this thing.
They kind of they return old topics.
So keys.
There we go.
Have you ever lost your keys?
Not properly for a very long time, like when I was in high school maybe.
I misplaced them the other day though, when I put them in the wrong pocket and I had a momentary panic.
It wasn't very serious.
Do you always bring many keys with you?
Not a lot of them, no.
I think I only have one on me now, actually.
It's my front door key.
Everything else in the house isn't locked, so there's no point on having any other ones.
Unless I'm looking after my parents' house or something.
They have lots of different ones for the front door and the back door and even the garden sheds.
Do you often forget the keys or lock yourself out?
No, it's never happened to me, actually.
My front door just has a standard lock and key really, so it's impossible for anything like that to go wrong.
The worst thing that could happen is locking myself in, but I almost always know where my keys are, so that seems unlikely.
Is it a good idea to leave your keys with a neighbor?
I suppose, though, if you trust them.
I don't really know mine, so I wouldn't do that.
But my best friend lives just up the road, so he has some backup keys just in case.
Where do you keep your keys?
I have a keychain that's almost always with the key itself in the door lock.
And when it's not there, I just stick them in my pocket or a little bag if I'm going away.
And then I won't need to worry about them for a while.
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Right, dear listener.
Keys.
I haven't lost my keys.
Or once I've lost my keys.
Present perfect.
Or you can say once I've misplaced them.
Them meaning keys.
Right, so the examiner asks you, have you ever lost your keys?
You can say, yeah, I've lost them.
Once or twice, right?
For example, as for me, I've lost keys several times.
It was horrible, okay?
Rory has never lost his keys.
Oh, no, like in...
Maybe when I was at school, right?
So, in the past.
I misplaced my keys the other day.
So, for example, last week I misplaced my keys.
So, I put them in the wrong place and then I thought I had lost them.
But I just like put them in some other place.
So, you can use this verb.
I usually put them in my back pocket or like I usually put them in my backpack, right?
But I misplaced them.
You can also say like, well, I usually get paranoid, very anxious, nervous.
Where are my keys?
Where are my keys?
Where are my house key?
So, house keys, car keys, maybe you have a car, you have car keys or car key, right?
So, I always get paranoid and I'm afraid to lose them, right?
Maybe you have a key card, right?
Because some apartments can open up with a key card, right?
So do you have keys, dear listener?
Do you have a key card?
Do you have, I don't know, one key for everything?
How many keys have you got?
How many keys do you have?
Oh, I have three keys.
My front door key, my second door key and my third door key.
My God.
No, the first key is kind of like a, not a usual key, it's like a strange key.
You stick it to the thing and the door opens.
You know, it's not like, you don't turn it.
Oh, like a key fob.
Key fob, it's called.
Yeah, I think it's called, I call it a key fob anyway.
Yeah, the entrance door to the house, to a block of flats.
You kind of look And I have two doors when I'm on the floor, on my floor and the second door which is to my apartment.
Yeah, say it again, what do you call it?
Key fob, F-O-B.
Fob key, dear listener.
I go to Google Images if I need to understand what it's like.
So if you Google key fob, F-O-B, so yeah, pretty much, yeah, I have a key fob.
I always bring many keys with me, a lot of keys, or I have like two keys, one key.
A set of keys, maybe, if it's all for one thing.
A set of keys.
I was given a set of keys because where I live right now used to be a place, a house, of multiple occupancy.
That means like there were many unrelated people living here at the same time.
So they all had their rooms locked, but they shared different rooms.
You can say that I usually have only two keys on me, kind of with me or on me.
It's my front door key.
It's my fob key.
It's my car key or car keys.
And everything else is locked, for example.
And we say like a key for something, a key for my house, a key for my, I don't know, room.
It's a key to my front door.
Not a key for?
It could be a key to my front door or a key for my front door.
Have you ever locked yourself out?
So to lock yourself out is a situation when the door is closed and you are outside and the key is in your apartment.
So you lock yourself out.
Oops.
But these days, I don't think like we have such doors.
They just don't close automatically.
Well, I mean, we sometimes do.
At least we do in my country.
But I don't think it's...
Very common for people to lock themselves out, unless it's someone else's house by accident.
So you can say like yeah, once I forgot my keys, or I left my keys in the flat and locked myself out.
It was super stressful.
Yeah.
Or it has never happened to me.
My front door has a standard lock system.
So we have keys and we have locks.
So a lock is in the door.
So a lock is the place where you turn your key.
So you turn your key inside a lock.
So I have a standard lock.
So it's impossible to lock yourself out.
Actually, once I did lock myself out, but it was a long time ago.
Yeah, I was cooking, and then just we opened the window, I left the apartment and bam, the door slammed shut.
I was outside, everything else was inside and then it was fun.
Luckily, my mother was working very close to the house, so I had to just run to her.
It took me about 10 minutes.
And then she gave me the keys.
I was told off.
I was actually shouted at for a good 10 minutes.
Horrible, horrible.
Did you shout back?
At my mom?
Of course not, Rory.
No, I was just like...
Maybe crying.
Oh, no.
So, yeah, people, locking yourself out.
And can you imagine like if you lock yourself out and you are there half naked, maybe in your towel, you know, somehow you went from the shower outside the apartment for some reason, I don't know why, but can you imagine like being without your phone, without money anything, just you clothes.
Yourself, just it, and the door is locked.
Horrible.
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That's why the next question is about your neighbor.
So sometimes it's useful to leave your key, another set of keys, with your neighbor.
So if you lock yourself out, you just, you know, knock on your neighbor's door.
Rory, what do you call it?
Like, I have an extra key, I have another pair of keys.
Oh, a spare key.
There we go.
Yeah.
So it's useful to have a spare key.
So that's the same key that you have, but maybe it's hidden.
You know, in films they hide a spare key, like in the garden under a rose.
Or you know, like they hide a specky somewhere by the door.
Do you do this, dear listener?
No, maybe you should, you know.
So yeah, it's a good idea to hide a specky or to leave your specky with a neighbor or with your parents, with somebody who lives close to you.
So, it's a good idea to leave your specky with somebody who lives up the road to back you up.
So this person has some backup keys just in case.
And if you lock yourself out, you can't get into your apartment.
So I couldn't get into my apartment.
I was stressed out.
It was a nightmare.
Or I was in a panic.
Yeah.
Where do we keep your... Where do we keep our keys?
Usually we have a keychain.
So something, you know, like this thingy, and then we put our keys on it.
So I have a keychain.
And what do you call this little thingy, that beautiful thingy that we put on a keychain?
I can't remember.
No, because you know like some women can keep their lipstick on the keychain.
You know a mirror like everything.
Ah, okay.
So you keep something on a keychain.
It doesn't have a special name then.
Maybe keychain accessories.
Okay.
But now, we can have some interesting items on a keychain, like a flashlight, for example.
If it gets dark, you kind of turn it on, and bam!
Or a pocket knife.
What do you keep on your keychain?
Maybe something else, or maybe something fluffy.
Some accessories, right?
So kind of you have a keychain and then on the keychain you have keys, you have your Tamagotchi, you have your I don't know lipstick, you have a pocket knife, a mirror.
You have like everything on there.
Yeah, you have all your life there.
There you go.
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There we go.
So what accessories, dear listener?
Accessories.
So they're called keychain accessories.
So I have keys, plus I have some accessories.
What are they?
Flashlight.
That's boring.
Pocket knife, also boring.
Oh, come on.
Why is a pocket knife boring?
It's got different things on it.
What?
A rabbit's foot for good luck.
Oh, yeah.
If you are superstitious, you have some like a rabbit's foot, but it's not like a foot of a rabbit.
Or you do have like a rabbit foot.
I don't have a rabbit's foot.
I can't think of anything worse than carrying bits of animals around with you.
Yeah, because some people put some you know, like fur, some furry things and to kind of to scare away evil spirits.
And you can have a rabbit's foot or some other thingies like that.
Lucky real rabbit foot, keychain foot.
Right, dear listener.
So what do you have on your keychain?
Maybe nothing, maybe something.
All right.
What do you have on your keychain?
Oh, I have some fluff.
Some fluff?
Okay, so, Rory, what do you call this?
First of all, I have this.
I don't know.
A bobble?
A bobble?
Yeah.
You cannot see what Maria is showing me, but it's a big furry ball.
Yeah, I have a big furry ball.
It's very soft.
It's very nice.
It's kind of like... Yeah, but it's quite big.
It's purple.
And it's, like, furry.
Then I also have this little thing.
So what do you call this one?
I just call that a keychain.
Um, again, I'm looking at something metal.
And it's a dragon.
Maybe it's just a charm or something nice.
It's a charm.
Yeah, there we go.
There we go.
It's a charm.
So a charm.
It's a nice metal dragon.
I'm not sure what metal it is.
And also I have this little thingy from somewhere.
From Thailand, I think.
See, so I have charms.
I have a big furry ball.
Souvenirs.
Souvenirs and keepsakes.
Keepsakes.
Yeah, dear listener, there we go.
Keepsakes.
Yes, so I have some charms, some keepsakes on my keychain.
A keepsake is a small present, usually not expensive, that someone gives you or you buy it like souvenirs, accessories.
Excellent.
Now, we are ready for a joke about keys.
What's the joke?
Dear listener, are you ready?
Yes.
So if you ever get locked out of your house, talk to your lock.
Because communication is key.
It is very funny.
But not as key as our vocabulary.
Vocabulary is key.
You see, a key to the door and something is key in communication, for example.
Key to success.
Key to success.
And here key is used in two different ways.
So if you get locked out of your house, you should talk to your lock.
Lock is like...
Imagine that your lock is a person and talk to the lock.
Oh, it's a joke.
Oh, my door.
Please, you know, understand me.
And I'm in this difficult position.
Could you just, you know, do something and just open?
Because communication is key.
Right.
Okay.
Thank you very much for listening.
And we'll get back to you next time.
Bye.
Bye.
Have you ever lost your keys?
Not properly for a very long time, like when I was in high school maybe.
I misplaced them the other day though, when I put them in the wrong pocket and I had a momentary panic.
It wasn't very serious.
Do you always bring many keys with you?
Not a lot of them, no.
I think I only have one on me now, actually.
It's my front door key.
Everything else in the house isn't locked, so there's no point on having any other ones.
Unless I'm looking after my parents' house or something.
They have lots of different ones for the front door and the back door and even the garden sheds.
Do you often forget the keys or lock yourself out?
No, it's never happened to me, actually.
My front door just has a standard lock and key really, so it's impossible for anything like that to go wrong.
The worst thing that could happen is locking myself in, but I almost always know where my keys are, so that seems unlikely.
Is it a good idea to leave your keys with a neighbor?
I suppose, though, if you trust them.
I don't really know mine, so I wouldn't do that.
But my best friend lives just up the road, so he has some backup keys just in case.
Where do you keep your keys?
I have a keychain that's almost always with the key itself in the door lock.
And when it's not there, I just stick them in my pocket or a little bag if I'm going away.
And then I won't need to worry about them for a while.
